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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioJoshua MATHIOT
(1800-1849)
MATHIOT, Joshua, a
Representative from Ohio; born in Connellsville, Fayette County,
Pa., April 4, 1800; moved to Newark, Licking County, Ohio, about
1830; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Newark;
prosecuting attorney 1832-1836; mayor of Newark in 1834; elected as
a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3,
1843); grand worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance in Ohio,
and while attending a temperance convention at Sandusky contracted
cholera, from which he died in Newark, Ohio, July 30, 1849;
interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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